A 24-year-old man was in critical condition early Saturday after police say he was beaten with a metal pole and bat following an argument in Bronzeville, causing him a serious head injury.

Just before 3 a.m. Saturday, the man got into an argument with three other people in the 100 block of West 35th Street, police said. Someone in the group got out a metal pole and hit the man in the head with it. Then the group got into a car and drove away.

A group of four others became involved, and one of them hit the man in the head with a bat, police said. That group got into another vehicle and left, police said.

The man was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where police said he was in critical condition.